30 years ago – April 26, 1985
Anyone who has driven south on Highway 119 lately has probably seen buffalo across from the Gold Dust. The 11 animals belong to Jesse Peterson and his wife Rochelle. The Petersons got eight of the buffalos, more properly called bison, from a man in Loveland. The other three came from the Genesee herd that belongs to the City of Denver. Three more are on the way. In fact, by the time the paper is out this week, three babies may have been born, adding to the Petersons’ herd. Jesse Peterson says the animals are not tame, domesticated, or even docile, but they are friendly. And, indeed they are, munching on high protein cattle pellets hand-fed to them. Peterson says they eat less than cattle, the entire herd going through only three bales of hay a day, plus some of those “yummy” pellets. The Petersons have fenced in about three acres for the herd, and plan to add more space for them. Some of the buffalos have names. Bill is the biggest one, weighing in at around 2,400 pounds, and is also the oldest at 9.
May 1 is still the target date for opening a trash compactor in Black Hawk, Gilpin County Commissioner Leslie Williams said this week. Although work on the site will not be completed until later, the compactor should be useable by the first of the month. Eventually, the site will have to be fenced, and Williams said the plan is to move the fence that is now around Clark School to the compactor. That would save the cost of purchasing a new fence.
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